Tuesday, August 28, 2007

a visit to NY

This past weekend, we drove 4+ hours to Chuck and Buddy's house in the "country" also known as mid-state NY. While we love visiting them at their NYC place, the atmosphere and peace of their country home is always welcome. Here's a little view from their screened-in room. Petra and Loofy got to catch up with their cousin Lola; Petra was aloof as usual, but Loofy loved showing off that he could get to the ball faster than poor Lola who even if she could have raced Loofy would have politely stepped aside for the comfort of her guest.
They loved the yard and all the time they got to spend outside. I wrangled them onto the stone patio for a quick picture, but as usual couldn't get them both to look at the camera at the same time.
Kaylee really liked the amenities as well. On Saturday morning, it was already getting pretty hot, so she took a dip in the pool with Mommy and her new water toy, a birthday present from her uncles.She loved swimming around with Mommy and Daddy in the refreshing water.She even went on a little floaty boat ride all around the pool...which is Olympic length so quite a journey!

Later that afternoon, we went to a friend of Chuck and Buddy's house with lots of kids, another pool and lots of pool toys! Check out the giant water see-saw.Kaylee took it all in stride...look at my water diva!Playing it cool, she went around the pool with Daddy a few times, took in the sites. She borrowed another floatie toy, just to see if she liked it any better. She does love doggies after all.Mostly she just liked relaxing in the water with her family.Doesn't she look relaxed, even with the giant two-headed lizard looming in the back!On Sunday morning, Kaylee played with her toys while waiting for her uncles to wake up.We told her we would have to leave in a while... I don't think she wanted to leave...
But we promised her we would take lots of pictures...and so we did, starting with a cute one of Kaylee and Daddy. And she posed with her uncle Buddy!

Look a smile!And with both of her uncles at once.Here's a family portrait, Kaylee, Daddy and Daddy's uncle!She even demanded to have a photo-shoot with Uncle Chuck!Kaylee shows uncle Chuck that anything he can do she can do better...
Finally it was time to leave...the dogs were exhausted. This was taken from the front seat. We even found proof that not all New Yorkers are under the influence of the evil empire! Go Sox!

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